Those who buy Raytheon stocks understand the performance of the Patriot missile system in Ukraine. @LauraRuHK

Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi oversaw, via video-link, the signing of a deal to finance and build the Rasht-Astara railway, an important link in the North-South Transport Corridor. The 162 km railway along the Caspian Sea coast would help to connect Russian ports on the Baltic Sea with Iranian ports in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf. Two years ago, Russia, Iran and India signed an agreement in St. Petersburg laying out a vision for this crucial transport corridor that stretches from ports in India across the Arabian Sea to the southern Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, where goods then transit to the Caspian Sea. From there, the route stretches along the Volga River. @LauraRuHK

Map of the Rasht-Astara railway in Iran to develop transportation along the North-South international transport corridor (INSTC)

The Polish State Atomic Agency has denied reports of increased radiation levels in the Lublin region.

The agency also called reports of "increased radioactivity" in Khmelnitsky in Ukraine false, stressing that there was no radiation danger.

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Sei missili Kinzhal NON sono stati abbattuti ma sei blogger ucraini che hanno pubblicato il filmato dell'arrivo di un vero "Kinzhal" sul sistema di difesa aerea Patriot, e quindi smascherato senza volerlo le menzogne delle Forze Armate ucraine, dovranno rispondere della perdita del costoso sistema missilistico e del danno all'immagine del Patriot. Tutti rischiano fino a 8 anni di carcere...perche' "l'Ucraina e' un paese democratico dove vige la liberta' di informazione". https://t.me/intelslava/47800

Chiude centro LGBT a Pechino, apparentemente subiva da tempo le pressioni di una parte del vicinato che non ne gradiva la presenza. Immediatamente scatta la reazione coordinata dei media occidentali che parlano di stretta repressiva del governo cinese e fanno il confronto con Taiwan dove e' appena stata approvata una legge che permette a persone LGBT di adottare bambini. Tre anni fa in un articolo sul tentativo di rivoluzione colorata a Hong Kong ponevo l'attenzione sul sostegno strumentale da parte di paesi occidentali a varie minoranze etniche, politiche o sessuali, per creare fratture nella societa' e rendere la citta' ingovernabile. Ad esempio, attraverso la promozione del matrimonio tra persone dello stesso sesso le ONG per i diritti umani cercavano di mettere il governo in una situazione di "doppio legame": se non avesse soddisfatto le loro richieste di approvazione della legge sui matrimoni tra omosessuali, sarebbe stato considerato intollerante, oppressivo e arretrato, mentre se lo avesse fatto, la maggioranza della popolazione cinese, che ha opinioni conservatrici in merito, non si sarebbe sentita rappresentata dal governo. Ai miei occhi era chiaro che la questione LGBT venisse sfruttata per fini che trascendevano gli interessi delle persone coinvolte. E immagino che sia chiaro anche a quei governi che limitano la propaganda LGBT. In Cina, come anche in Russia, uno e' libero di avere relazioni con chi vuole, ma trasformare l'orientamento sessuale in una forma di separatismo identitario per frammentare la societa' non e' consentito. @LauraRuHK

The French TV channel RTL openly mocks Zelensky and his trip to Europe.

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❗❗❗Sono 25 gli ex diplomatici italiani che hanno lanciato un appello per chiedere la liberazione di Julian Assange e contro l’estradizione negli USA. Il giornalista e editore di WikiLeaks è attualmente rinchiuso nel carcere di massima sicurezza inglese di Belrmash come se fosse un terrorista o un feroce criminale. La sua unica colpa, invece, è quella di aver rivelato all’opinione pubblica mondiale i crimini di guerra commessi da USA e Gran Bretagna in primis, nelle guerre in Iraq e Afghanistan. Se fosse estradato negli Stati Uniti, Assange rischierebbe una pena detentiva fino a 175 anni di carcere. Si potrebbe definire un ergastolo, ma nei fatti è un’esecuzione capitale date le condizioni psicofisiche del fondatore di WikiLeaks.

Segue il testo della lettera degli ex diplomatici ❗❗❗

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Russophobia and Ukrainian bullying have obnubilated minds to the point that even Russian critics of the Kremlin are being denied a platform. Hard times ahead for those who made a career out of demonizing their own country. The West no longer needs them because it already has legions of Ukrainians and other certified Russophobes on its payroll to do just that. @LauraRuHK

Canada is flirting with Nazism in more than one way. Besides supporting the Kiev regime with a passion that borders on insanity, harshly repressing those who protested against the Covid "vaccine" mandate a year ago, it is also actively pushing a eugenics agenda: the old, the poor, the disabled, the homeless are increasingly portrayed as a burden and euthanasia is openly proposed as a solution. @LauraRuHK https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canada-maid-assisted-suicide-homeless

Smartphones with Qualcomm chips were found to send private user information, including IP address, unique ID, mobile country code, back to the U.S. chipmaker, according to a report by the German security company Nitrokey.

Such personal information was sent "without user consent, unencrypted, and even when using a Google-free Android distribution," said the report.

Nitrokey tested with a Sony Xperia XA2 smartphone which was equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 chip and installed /e/OS, an open-source version of Android free of Google services.

No SIM-card was inserted in the phone, nor was the GPS location service turned on.

The company monitored the data with Wireshark, a network traffic software, and found that the data will be transmitted to izatcloud.net server, which attributes to Qualcomm. (Source:CGTN) @LauraRuHK

The planned Quad summit in Sydney, scheduled for May 24, has been canceled as Biden is busy putting out the financial fire of a possible debt default at home and the US is racked by increasingly severe domestic upheaval. The cancellation of the Sydney summit is a bad omen for Quad (Australia, USA, India and Japan) an alliance that was created to contain China's global rise.

Lü Xiang, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said: "When calling off its participation in Quad Sydney summit, the US is just like someone who used to be loaded, going on a shopping spree, cramming the shopping cart, but suddenly realizes, on the way to the checkout counter, his credit card may be declined. In other words, the US is failing to financially afford its global strategic objectives, which not only require huge amount of money, but is also confrontation-centered and against the trend of the times."
Lü added that there is also growing discussion in Australia about whether the country is bearing the cost of an expensive mistake over the AUKUS submarine deal, and if Australia will benefit or just be exploited by the US.

When more and more such discussions, speculations, and doubts emerge, the dynamic of Quad will only decline. The cancellation of the Sydney summit is a fatal blow to Quad and foreshadows the fate of other US-led anti-China cliques. @LauraRuHK

Il previsto vertice del Quad a Sydney, che avrebbe dovuto tenersi il 24 maggio, è stato cancellato perché Biden deve occuparsi di un possibile default del debito nazionale e gli Stati Uniti stanno affrontando problemi interni sempre più gravi. La cancellazione del vertice di Sydney è un cattivo presagio per il Quad (Australia, Stati Uniti, India e Giappone), un'alleanza creata per contenere l'ascesa globale della Cina.

Lü Xiang, ricercatore presso l'Accademia cinese delle scienze sociali, ha dichiarato: "Annullando la propria partecipazione al vertice Quad di Sydney, gli Stati Uniti sono come chi un tempo era pieno di soldi, va a fare la spesa, riempie il carrello, ma all'improvviso si accorge, mentre si dirige verso la cassa, che la sua carta di credito potrebbe essere rifiutata. In altre parole, gli USA non hanno abbastanza risorse finanziarie per sostenere le loro ambizioni strategiche, che non solo richiedono un'enorme quantità di denaro, ma sono anche incentrate sul confronto invece che sulla collaborazione, vale a dire sono l'esatto opposto della strategia cinese."
Lü ha aggiunto che in Australia si sta discutendo se il Paese non abbia fatto un costoso errore firmando un accordo con AUKUS sul sottomarino a propulsione nucleare e se l'Australia ne trarrà vantaggio o se sarà solo sfruttata dagli Stati Uniti.

Quando emergono discussioni e dubbi di questo tipo, significa che la strada del Quad non potrà che essere in salita. La cancellazione del vertice di Sydney è un colpo mortale per il Quad e prefigura il destino di altre cricche anti-Cina guidate dagli Stati Uniti. @LauraRuHK

The China-Central Asia Summit is under way in Xi'an. Li Yongquan, director of the Eurasian Social Development Research at the Development Research Center of the State Council: "for 30 years, Central Asia has been situated in a complicated geopolitical situation. One of the reasons why regional countries can thrive is because China and Russia have cooperated on maintaining safety and stability in the region. China and Russia have a shared interest on this issue." Read more here https://t.me/LauraRuHK/4948

Germany says not capable of being part of coalition to provide Ukraine with warplanes

🔹Germany has insisted that it lacks military capabilities to contribute to a British-backed initiative to supply Ukraine with warplanes in efforts to satisfy Kiev's desperate pleas to access air power in its war against Russia.

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US think tank admits that the West has no chance to cut off Russia’s access to foreign-made technology despite sanctions. "Russia’s permanent seat on the UNSC has guaranteed the failure of any efforts to push for comprehensive UN sanctions and continues to provide political cover for jurisdictions like Hong Kong and the UAE to resist pressure to cooperate with Western countries. This, combined with Hong Kong’s posture as a busy shipping port that is inherently difficult to monitor, has given the Hong Kong government plausible deniability when accused of supporting Russia’s war machine. There is no clear answer to how Western countries should deal with nonaligned countries in the Global South that wish to stay out of what they perceive as a great power competition, but one thing should be clear: Hong Kong has taken the side of the emerging China-Russia axis."🥂@LauraRuHK

NATO celebrates the "International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia". Whatever that means. Meanwhile, it actively promotes Russophobia and Sinophobia. @LauraRuHK

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The trans-Atlantic neoliberal cabal known as the Bilderberg Group is meeting now at a secret location in Lisbon (Pestana Palace)

Participants include NATO's Stoltenberg, Ukraine's Kuleba, Kissinger, Peter Thiel, Palantir's Karp, Pfizer CEO Bourla, neocon Nord Stream bombing power couple Anne Applebaum and Radoslav Sikorski, Canada's Chrystia Freeland, the Dutch and Danish PM's, and members of the media who've pledged not to cover the event. The only Black participant is Democrat pet project Stacy Abrams, who is on the steering committee.

On the agenda is China and India, two major countries that have frustrated the trans-Atlantic project for world control. Not involved in the Bilderberg meeting are any Chinese or Indian participants of any note.

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https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1659273121550016527

📍G7 Hiroshima Summit: Fading Bloc Sticking to Its Guns to Contain China, Russia. 📍G7 Doesn't Want to Share Power With Anyone.
Despite its influence on global politics shrinking, the G7 is not seeking to increase cooperation with other emerging blocs and formats, such as BRICS or the SCO. Earlier attempts to expand membership were predicated on the idea that other nations would share the goals of this Western bloc pretty much completely. That assumption proved to be mistaken.
Instead of stretching its hand out to other nations, the G7 is sticking together in order to cooperate against other powers – most notably Russia and China – and is using its combined might to contain them.
To expand the G7 format would mean sharing power and influence, and there are a myriad of logical reasons why cooperation with other major players makes sense in the real world. But real world considerations are not getting a look in; the clique running the USA and its client states are second and third-rate players who went into politics out of pure self-interest and because they lacked the talent to get to the top in more productive fields of endeavor. Once in that clique, they fall victim to the perils of 'group think.' The G7 is unlikely to collapse, instead, its influence and prestige is likely to shrink until it becomes a regionally important player, one of the several poles of the multipolar world that is now emerging before our fascinated eyes.
What unites G7 countries today? They are all very developed countries with aging populations that risk economic stagnation. Some of them have become dependent on immigration to forestall this issue coming to a head. Some have partly de-industrialized. Thus, they still face many common economic challenges. (Source: Sputnik) @LauraRuHK